raves, raids, lades, ladders,

[John 1594]

hay raves as we call them here. Short work is always "gore".

Conventional ploughing we used to do what was called a "french gore" difficult to explain but we would split the angle, plough half off each way then be left with a parrelel strip through the middle an half the angle between the long work and the headland, saved slipping and backing all the short work off

 

[blackbob]

Gormers fit on each end of rully to stop sheaves/bales falling off.
Rully is a hay/straw trailer with a turntable that runs on shears.
When i was a lad "PATRICK" rullies was the common name for them.

cheers Gormers

Wonder if this is the origin of 'gormless' then, meaning someone who is "nae a' there" or "nae the full shilling"
Back to Benny from Crossroads! Oops wrong thread...
And the triangular bit at the side of a field is a 'gushet'
Shaws are the stems of tatties, but a stem of tatties is the whole plant ("I holed (dug up) a stem o' new tatties")
A bone davie is a full-width fertiliser spreader (1950's?)

 

[12 Angry Men]

Lades

Rawing up in front of baler or chopper

Working land towards the point is doing the Butts of a field

Endrigs are Headlands.

Knocking out a field into breks....opening up the parallel bouts with say a mower

 

[multi power]

have not heard of endrigs for years

 

[12 Angry Men]

have not heard of endrigs for years

Aye

Say chopping would be lift endrigs then the long lanning then finish with the butts

 

[multi power]

what about digging spuds with a spinner ?

 

[Derrick Hughes]

Buggie rack on front Thripper on the back

 

[Matthew Britton]

Harrows on a Whipple tree, rowing up, short work, wents and lands we use for splitting field into bits for example mowing, ladders or raves on a trailer. If something is split it has splut and you smite instead of hit.
Matthew

 

[Dave W]

Dad called them Gormers when we had trailer with them, and the short bits are gairings

I've always known them as gormers.

 

[ridger]

hay raves as we call them here. Short work is always "gore".

Conventional ploughing we used to do what was called a "french gore" difficult to explain but we would split the angle, plough half off each way then be left with a parrelel strip through the middle an half the angle between the long work and the headland, saved slipping and backing all the short work off

Explain

 

[ridger]

With diagram if necessary

 

[Lincsman]

Explain

I think he means if you are left with a V to plough, you go down one side then turn back up the other side, (all "inside" the V). You dont go until it meets at the point, you lift out just when you can turn back easily. then you would be left with approx 10m strip with ins and outs down the middle to finish off. Is that clear????!

 

[John 1594]

I think he means if you are left with a V to plough, you go down one side then turn back up the other side, (all "inside" the V). You dont go until it meets at the point, you lift out just when you can turn back easily. then you would be left with approx 10m strip with ins and outs down the middle to finish off. Is that clear????!

in a nutshell, yes

Imagine the V

Say one end, your left with 100 yards from the furrow to the ditch, and the other end, your left with 50

At the wide end, you step 50 yards, to find the center, then step 10 yards each side of that, and put a pair of poles up

At the other end, you would step 25 yards, then step 10 yards either side and put your poles up

Scratch a pair of marks through in line with your poles, this should leave a 20 yard parrelel stip smack bang in the middle of the V.

Plough the V out, simply keep going round in a circle, and working your way from the wide end to the narrow end, then plough the parrelel stip out afterwards, job done

 

[Lincsman]

in a nutshell, yes

Imagine the V

Say one end, your left with 100 yards from the furrow to the ditch, and the other end, your left with 50

At the wide end, you step 50 yards, to find the center, then step 10 yards each side of that, and put a pair of poles up

At the other end, you would step 25 yards, then step 10 yards either side and put your poles up

Scratch a pair of marks through in line with your poles, this should leave a 20 yard parrelel stip smack bang in the middle of the V.

Plough the V out, simply keep going round in a circle, and working your way from the wide end to the narrow end, then plough the parrelel stip out afterwards, job done

While you were stepping and marking, i would have just got on ploughing and guessed the turning point each time and had half of it done, maybe i'm highly skilled or just lazy???

 

[John 1594]

i like it to be precise, all the ins and outs in a straight line, makes it easier when you finish off, and cleaner

 

[Wombat]

Short work is gearings but shortened to gays

Agree gormers go on a trailer

Wicks are i think couch grass,

 

[ridger]

Y

I think he means if you are left with a V to plough, you go down one side then turn back up the other side, (all "inside" the V). You dont go until it meets at the point, you lift out just when you can turn back easily. then you would be left with approx 10m strip with ins and outs down the middle to finish off. Is that clear????!

Yes that's what I do.

 

[Tha Ulsterscot]

Harrows on a Whipple tree, rowing up, short work, wents and lands we use for splitting field into bits for example mowing, ladders or raves on a trailer. If something is split it has splut and you smite instead of hit.
Matthew

Harrows were on a swingletree here.

 

[Lincsman]

Harrows were on a swingletree here.

A Baulk here

 

[Farmer Dod]

Our trailers can be cairts or bogies.

We also cut up turnips with a neep-hasher and spread fert. with the spirker.